Kids only zone for this ride. Girls rode up the hill and tubed down.

Awesome!

Um. This.

So fun! Roller coast down the slopes. So fast. You can control your speed so that's nice. Haha.

Lift up and slide down. Super fun!

We had a day to do whatever. We stayed the night at a Breck Inn in Breckenridge, CO. Wow. I need another trip here for longer. Shopping anyone?!

This place has skiing and is near Vail. During the summer the slopes turn into a fun paradise!

We are playing at Epic Discovery. The lift up was free to see all the fun they offered. We arrived and decided to stay and play

Fruita was fabulous. Fruit trees with big, red rocks in the background. We all felt like this park reminded us of home. Mabry Mill feel too.

Now if we only had this cool van to drive. Maybe next time.

Fruita is a historic area in the park. Early settlers planted all types of fruit and nut trees.

When trees are ripe they mark them and you can pick and eat them. Whatever you eat while you are there is free and anything you take out is $1 a pound.

After we ate our pies we watched a deer eat apples that had fallen. She didn't mind us taking pictures and watching her at all. (I didn't use my phone-whoops)

When we went to pick at an orchard we found several hanging out under trees.

We found the nasty "tank". No, I would not let them even put a finger tip in. I have no desire to discover some flesh eating bacteria on this trip.

After our hikes and the start of rain, we headed to this cute little house in the park for pie and ice cream for the girls.

Dessert first it is!

Our next hike was Capitol Gorge. This was another hike through a canyon's wash.

The girls learned about flash floods in canyons at the aquarium in Denver and were nervous to hike in canyons. We hiked this morning and happened to be pulling out just as raindrops fell. They were happy with that.

There was a hike up to see "tanks" which held water. Imagine standing water...ew. But on we went.

Grand Wash Trail heading back. What a scene.

We have gone without injury most of the trip. Mainly a few shoe rubs for the youngest. Today, she stepped on a rock that was loose. She scrapped her shin good. No tears but something to whine about.

For a distraction, we ended up playing a game where someone would name a first name and someone else would use the last name of a famous person. If you named someone first you got to throw out the next first name. Some examples were:

Jimmy - Fallon!
George - Washington!
Jackson - Heath! (Totally famous to the girls!)
Jackson - Abraham Lincoln!
David - Bumgarner... 😍
Philip - (Kevin yells Rivers and the girls yell Brown!) I told them Phillip Brown is not famous and Embree Claire quickly noted, "He probably thinks he is." 🤣

This made the hike go by without fuss. Of course it took us our last park to figure it out.

It also gives you insight to what your kids know and think.

At one point I said "Big" thinking Bird and Sidney Kate popped up with "Biggie Smalls." Wait-what?

Our first hike was Grand Wash Trail. This was neat and similar to The Narrows at Zion but without water. It was also wider. The girls enjoyed the climbing opportunities.

Today was Capitol Reef (pretty sure I spelled it wrong earlier-meh)

We flew by the visitors center, I blame lack of appropriate signage; Kevin blames me. Side note: the hotel was el yucko last night, so I blame lack of sleep.

Anyway, this allowed us to see petroglyphs before hiking.